AJA Video Systems recently released the Ki Pro Quad file-based recording device for professional 4K and HD workflows. Alex Buono , director of photography for the Saturday Night Live film unit, recently used the AJA Ki Pro Quad together with a Canon C500...

Cooke Optics announced that it will expand its factory in Leicester, U.K. and hire additional employees to accommodate a growing demand for its hand-crafted lenses. The company plans to add an additional 300 square meters, which will house more assembly...

Toronto-based reality TV/documentary production company Proper Television has expanded its EditShare storage system with the purchase of 100 TB of additional EditShare XStream storage, expanding the company’s production capacity to 164 TB. In addition...

During the opening scene of The History Channel series Vikings , we find ourselves somewhere in Eastern Baltic in 793 AD where Viking warriors are battling to the death. Recreating the world of Norse traditions was a task production designer Tom Conroy...

Kodak will host two discussions with acclaimed cinematographers at this year’s Cine Gear Expo on the Paramount Lot in Los Angeles. At 5:15 p.m., May 31, Kodak will sit down with cinematographer Giles Nuttgens , BSC for a conversation in the Paramount...

Bexel has expanded its selection of cameras with the purchase of four Sony F55 cameras, a compatible selection of PL-mount Fujinon Cabrio Lenses, as well as 10 Canon EOS C300 cameras. The new camera packages will be on display at Cine Gear Expo (Booth...

FOR-A Corporation of America plans to showcase its FT-ONE full 4K super slow motion camera at Cine Gear Expo, May 31 - June 1 at The Studios at Paramount in Hollywood. FOR-A will also display the FT-1READ - a RAW data to DPX converter available with the...

At Cine Gear Expo on May 31 at 4:15 p.m. in Screening Room #5, cinematographers John Bailey , ASC ( The Way, Way Back ) and Peter Levy , ASC, ACS ( House of Lies ) will discuss their approaches to image creation and control from production through post...

Dakota Pictures , producers of the revived television series Arrested Development , recently turned to L.A.-based post house Shapeshifter to provide comprehensive postproduction services for the show’s fourth season, which debuted on Netflix on Sunday...

Digital Film Technology announced a major sale to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). The NFSA has acquired DFT’s new motion picture film scanner SCANITY, for the digitization of its extensive holdings of 16mm film in the national...